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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Patchkit 0.2 is released
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Date: 28 Jan 93 18:39:58 GMT
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osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:

>Finally!

>The next version of the patchkit is available from
>agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/incoming/nate/patchkit-0.2.tar.Z,

>until Chris moves it to:
>/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/patch-kit/patchkit-0.2.tar.Z

>where it will stay until the next person updates it.

>This version is a much stabler version than the old version (no
>fault of Terry's, but I've had way too much time to fix bugs :-)

Indeed...I ran crashme on my 386bsd box yesterday, and for the first time
it managed to survive the basic 1 hour test!!!

Next thing I did was a 12 hour test, but it didn't quite survive that...
after about 2 hours, the thing rebooted and it turned out that the
disk parameters in the cmos were overwritten ;-().

This brings me to another point: though I haven't seen the system panicing
often lately, each time it actually panics, it doens't dump core on the swap
device as should be (I think). So no post mortem coredumps anymore. I
am sure it worked a few months ago..Anyone having a solution?

-Guido